HOW WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT DEATH: AN ANALYSIS OF NAGEL’S AND BLACKBURN’S APPROACHES

Authors

  • Rutapol Petchbordee

Keywords:

Death, Thomas Nagel, Simon Blackburn

Abstract

If we consider the issues in the area of metaphysics, death would undoubtedly be counted as one of the most important. The importance of this issue begins with its status as a fact and at the same time our difficulty in conceptualizing this fact. We do not know how to think about something we in a sense know. It leads us again and again to strive to conceptualize something that cannot be communicated as experience, as understandable. This essay will mainly observe Thomas Nagel’s and Simon Blackburn’s philosophical observations on these questions, against the observations on death from Greek philosophy. The essay will show how we should move beyond a thinking about death, to a consideration of how the fact of death should influence our reflections on our lives.

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Published

2020-07-08

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2020): January - June 2020

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